- View each video clip. After viewing each clip, pause to record the big ideas from the segment on the concept map provided. Compare your map with a table mate's; update your map to reflect any new learning. Continue on to the next clip.
- The Weather Channel: The Colorado Returns to the Sea
- The weather channel: Colorado River Dams and Lakes
- The Weather Channel: Colorado River City Use
- The Weather Channel: Colorado River Agriculture
- The Weather Channel: Colorado River Dry Seas
- The Weather Channel: Colorado River Flood Gates Open
- Participate in the whole class discussion about the Colorado River geography, usage, etc. Update your concept map to reflect new learning.
- Choose an article to read or listen to the NPR story on the Colorado River. Record a summary of the article/ story on the back of your concept map.
- listening link:
- Waters will Flood Part of the Colorado River, For Just a Few Weeks (NPR - listen to the story)
- articles to read:
- Colorado River Drought Forces A Painful Reckoning for States
- National Geographic: pulse flow of the Colorado River
- An Unusual Sight: Water Flows in Mexico's Colorado River
- Pulse Flow Already Bringing New Life to Colorado River Delta
- Historic Water Release Bring Surge Of Joy to River Delta
- Monitoring the Pulse Flow
- A community gets its river back
- listening link:
- Discuss your reading with a classmate; complete a Venn Diagram to show how your stories were the same and different.
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